Mark Chater, Clive Erricker

Does Religious Education Have a Future?

Pedagogical and Policy Prospects

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Written by two highly experienced leading practitioners of RE, Does Religious Education have a Future? argues for a radical reform of the subject based on principles of pedagogy set free from religious concerns. It challenges teachers, researchers and educators to rethink their approaches to, and assumptions about, religious education, and enables them to see their work in a larger context that includes pedagogical ideas and political forces. This book is essential reading for academics, advisers and policy makers, as well as teachers of RE at primary and secondary levels and trainee and newly qualified teachers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 154mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9780415681704
• ISBN-10: 0415681707
• Artikelnr.: 33260654

Autorenporträt

Mark Chater is Director of Culham St Gabriel's, a trust supporting research, development and innovation in religious education. He was senior adviser with responsibility for RE at the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, and before that, a teacher and trainer of RE. Clive Erricker is a consultant and researcher in the fields of education and religion. Prior to this, he was County Inspector for Religious Education, History and Community Cohesion in Hampshire, and was previously Head of the School of Religion and Theology and Reader in Religion and Education at the University of Chichester, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The politics and discourse of RE Section 1. Representations
of religion and education: critical enquiries 1. The global context of
religion and belief 2. The conflicted context of education Section 2.
Diagnosing RE's pedagogy, provenance and politics 3. The heart of the
enterprise: a pedagogical problem 4. Phenomenology and anthropology: the
advocacy of religion as an approach to RE 5. Discourse and dissonance in
contemporary paradigms of RE 6. The politics of English RE: a portrait of
disfunctionality Section 3. The case for a radical transformation of RE 7.
The doors of pedagogical perception: pedagogy as existential stance 8.
Towards an educational economy of religions 9. Between education and
catastrophe: The futures of RE